Shining a Spotlight on the U.S. Powerball Lottery

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The US Powerball Lottery is a mega-jackpot draw that attracts crowds from all corners of the world. Want to know why? Read all about it – the clock is ticking! 

The U.S. Powerball lottery, initially conceived in 1988 for US states that did not sell the Mega Millions lottery, has grown to become the most popular lottery draw in North America, featuring some of the heftiest jackpots in the world (rivaled only by the U.S. Mega Millions). This lottery giant has become so favourable amongst lottery fans that countries like the UK, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa have all launched their own local versions of it.

U.S. Powerball Explained

So what sets this lottery apart from other renowned formats? Well, at its core, it is still a lottery draw like many others – select a series of five balls with numbers ranging 1 to 59, and an additional number (the Powerball) from a guess range of 1 to 35 – but there's a twist to it in the form of an optional prize multiplier, called Power Play, which doubles, triples or quadruples secondary prizes. An [...]

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Top 5 Reasons Why Big Lottery Wins Go Unclaimed

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Winning the lottery and collecting your prize is something most of us have dreamt of at some point. We think about how we would celebrate, what we would buy first and whom we would help with our new found fortune. Rarely do we consider what might stand in our way to collecting that big lottery win.

There is no doubt that Lady Luck has a leading role in every jackpot win and most winners will view her timing as perfect. Occasionally though, she leaves before the prize can be collected and this is when it pays to buy lotto tickets online with a reliable lottery service such as theLotter.

Here are the top 5 reasons players fail to collect lottery wins:

1.       Forgot had played or didn't check the results

Of the $40 billion worth of lottery prize money won in the US in 2011, $800 million went unclaimed. According to the Texas Lottery Commission, more than $10 million worth of prizes were unclaimed from January – March 2013 alone. Annual figures for the last three years show that $52.3 million (2012), $53.7 million (2011) and $86.8 million (2010) of lottery winnings reverted to the lottery-loving American state, Texas, the number one reason being that winners simply forget to check their results [...]

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Why Popular Australian Lottery Draws Always Feature High on theSmart

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Individually and especially as a group, Australian lottery draws offer some of the best lotto odds in the world. Combine this with seven, eight and even nine-figure Aussie dollar jackpots and barely a week goes by without Australia's top lotteries appearing high up on theSmart.   

Tuesday night's AU$ 13 million Oz Lotto is at number nine on theBig list of the world's largest lottery draws, yet where Australian lotteries truly excel is on theSmart list that ranks lotto draws by cost-benefit ratio. theLotter offers lottery lovers the chance to buy Aussie lotto tickets online for the four most popular Australian lotteries; Oz Lotto, the Australia Powerball and Australia's Wednesday and Saturday Lotto draws.

theSmart is a unique real-time lottery list exclusively offered by theLotter that considers a number of factors, including the size of a lottery's jackpot, the cost of tickets, odds of winning and the tax that will be due on lotto wins. The following table compares Australia's top four lotteries, using the [...]

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Five major lottery announcements that hint at global trend

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Winds of change have been blowing for a while in the lottery world. It started with the US Powerball, then La Primitiva got in on the act, followed by the Australian Powerball. Autumn will see major changes from the UK National Lottery and as Mega Millions joins this elite club, we ask will EuroMillions be next?

Often when a lottery announces changes in its rule structure, lotto cynics will focus on the likely price increase, making wild claims denouncing such moves. They often conveniently forget that in most cases, the lottery in question will be responding to changing demands of their fan base (whose dedication and loyalty allow lotteries to operate successfully in the first place), and will offer bigger prizes to more people, along with greater funding for the causes they support!

Several major national lotteries have announced big rule changes since January 2012. In order to see whether it would be worthwhile for EuroMillions to become the next major lotto to make such moves, let's start with the UK National Lottery changes expected in Autumn 2013 and trace the trend back to the US Powerball.

What Fans Want – UK Lotto Changes – Autumn 2013

On 19^th November 1996, Noel Edmund hosted the first Natio [...]

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€190 Million Lottery: 12 of the Best to Celebrate Bayford Anniversary

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EuroMillions is Europe's premier lottery and last summer EuroMillions UK helped it to set both a new personal best and a European lotto record jackpot, even though neither of these happened for the UK National Lottery itself. Adrian and Gillian Bayford had become the new British lottery King and Queen of Europe!

Retro-lottery-video 1 – 190 Million Euros and 212 Million Dollar Jackpots side by side

On 10^th August 2012, EuroMillions was set to become Europe's first €190 million lottery. Stretched to its jackpot-cap by 14 rollovers, and destined to set a new record after a failed attempt just a few days earlier, the draw produced the numbers 11, 17, 21, 48 and 50, with Lucky Stars 9 and 10 and a ticket finally won! Chris and Colin Weir may have set the UK record at £161 million in a EuroMillions UK draw 13 months earlier but those seven numbers combined to crown an English couple from Haverhill in Suffolk, Adrian and Gillian Bayford, the current European record lottery jackpot winners with a £148 million or €190 million lottery windfall.

Having seen that they had just won the record €190 million lottery jackpot live, Adrian and Gillian Bayford waited from Friday night until Tuesday to allow the media to publicise their EuroMillions UK win. How did they celebrate in that time? A Domino's pizza family meal with their children.

Here are 12 news and blog entries about EuroMillions UK and the Bayfords in honour of their unique achievement:

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Lotto Jock and Lottery Nerd Head to Head

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A lotto jock and a lottery nerd are going head to head this Saturday, from thousands of miles away, with whole oceans between them. Both have been hitting headlines in mainstream media, attracting national if not global coverage. Both are available right here on theLotter from right where YOU are sitting.

"The Jock" USA Powerball Lottery	Category	"The Nerd" Australia Saturday Lotto
US$ 40 Million	Current Jackpot	AU$ 20 Million
Play US Powerball	Play here	Play Saturday Lotto
US$ 590.5 Million (May. 2013)	Record jackpot	AU$ 47.9 Million (Apr. 2008)
To play selec [...] http://www.playthelottonow.com Wednesday, August 7, 2013 theLotter’s UK-based $1 million Powerball Winner: Ready for Wednesday’s $425 million Jackpot! The post theLotter's UK-based $1 million Powerball Winner: Ready for Wednesday's $425 million Jackpot! appeared first on theLotter Blog - Online Lottery Tickets, Numbers and Results How would your life change if you became a millionaire in the US Powerball? We caught up with theLotter's biggest single win player in over a decade, B.U. from London, and found that he's the same old B.U., just with a lot more money in his bank account! [...] http://www.playthelottonow.com Thursday, August 1, 2013 What Gets You Dreaming? The post What Gets You Dreaming? appeared first on theLotter Blog - Online Lottery Tickets, Numbers and Results The lottery world has seen some incredible jackpots created and won in the last few years and several of the lotteries featured on our site offer sizeable secondary prizes. We want to know what gets you dreaming! Sixteen months ago a Mega Millions rollover triggered a chain reaction that helped it to deliver a $656 million prize that is still the world jackpot record! The US lotto already held the accolade for a $390 million top prize won by ticket holders in Georgia and New Jersey back in March 2007 but in March 2012 lottery officials and fans felt that something special was about to happen. Needless to say, they were not disappointed! When no ticket matched the $363 million Mega Millions winning numbers in draw 2012/25, lottery lovers and an army of lotto opportunists sprang into action! Excitement gripped the nation as players in the US and around the world dreamt about their big win. Collectively they took a $476 million estimated jackpot to $500 million, $540 million and $640 million before it settled at $656 million. Dubbed as 'March Madness' by news sites across America, this was a 'watershed moment' which has altered lotto expectations and was followed by two enormous US Powerball lottery jackpots also worth more than half a billion dollars. So how big d [...] http://www.playthelottonow.com Christmas Spirit in July: Spain’s Loteria de Navidad Shows Up Early on theLotter The post Christmas Spirit in July: Spain's Loteria de Navidad Shows Up Early on theLotter appeared first on theLotter Blog - Online Lottery Tickets, Numbers and Results We can already hear the sleigh bells ringing and smell pine in the air! Christmas is still a full five months away, but the calendar distance just got smaller with the arrival of Spain’s Christmas Lottery, Loteria de Navidad, to theLotter’s online lottery offerings of 47 lotteries from around the globe! Although it is only July and Christmas cards have yet to be sent, the Christmas spirit is here and comes bearing €2.24 billion gifts! The Loteria de Navidad or Spanish Christmas Lottery visits lotto fans every holiday season on December 22nd and awards the most prizes of any other lottery event on the planet! We can still feel the hot summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere, but lottery players can start dreaming about the lottery world's winter wonderland with a ticket for Loteria de Navidad 2013.  What can lottery fans expect to find under the Loteria de Navidad's Christmas tree this year? The world's biggest prize p [...] http://www.playthelottonow.com Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Followers Blog Archive ▼  2013 (269) ►  December (8) ►  November (47) ►  October (7) ►  September (3) ▼  August (9) Shining a Spotlight on the U.S. Powerball Lottery Top 5 Reasons Why Big Lottery Wins Go Unclaimed Why Popular Australian Lottery Draws Always Featur... Five major lottery announcements that hint at glob... €190 Million Lottery: 12 of the Best to Celebrate ... Lotto Jock and Lottery Nerd Head to Head theLotter’s UK-based $1 million Powerball Winner: ... What Gets You Dreaming? Christmas Spirit in July: Spain’s Loteria de Navid... ►  July (46) ►  June (9) ►  May (17) ►  April (11) ►  March (61) ►  February (23) ►  January (28) ►  2012 (518) ►  December (41) ►  November (84) ►  October (34) ►  September (24) ►  August (21) ►  July (18) ►  June (29) ►  May (41) ►  April (37) ►  March (69) ►  February (35) ►  January (85) ►  2011 (611) ►  December (34) ►  November (35) ►  October (42) ►  September (63) ►  August (58) ►  July (67) ►  April (79) ►  March (95) ►  February (68) ►  January (70) ►  2010 (666) ►  December (160) ►  November (133) ►  October (167) ►  September (206) About Me Lottery Results View my complete profile Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.